From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8068 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Non-member submission from [Thomas Esser ] Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:52:08 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020527225200.03961e00@remote-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398503 24526 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8068 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8068 > > > If I su to my home directory from root (or su to root from my home > dir), then > > texexec gives the error > >Don't do > su userid > >Better do > su - userid > >That su without "-" just gives you a shell which initialy inheritares >environment variables from the root shell. E.g. HOME will not be set >to your usual directory and the new shell will not read the usual >.profile and /etc/profile stuff. > >Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------